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2 partitions gone!
Hi. I'm running Win7 HP with all latest updates. I have a single 500gb disk, partitioned as C:\ Windows 7, D:\Editing and E:\Data Backups.
I was working last evening quite happily, when I noticed a lot of disk activity and the system slowed down. I tried rebooting and as it got to the desktop, I noticed that Acronis non-stop backup flashed an alert to say that E:\ was unavailable. I checked further and discovered that both my D:\ and E:\ partitions weren't showing in Explorer.
I tried Easeus Partition Recocovery,which 'found' 416 partitions, only one of which (C:\) was classed as high for recovery. Window is running OK on C:\ anyway so I closed Easeus.
I did notice when I tried to do a system restore that there was an update that may have coincided with the high disk activity and slowing down but when I checked the update list, nothing was shown for that date and time.
Is there a way to recover what appears to be a damaged partition table?
My 2 lost partitions now show as 'unallocated space' so how would it be if I created a single partition, using all that space and calling it E:\ so that it becomes my Data Backup partition. I think I can manage without what was on D:\.
If my data is still there, will creating the new partition retain the data from both lost partitions? Obviously, I will not format the new partition!
I also noticed that System Restore failed, 'might be due to an anti-virus program'. I turned off Norton IS 2010 but restore still failed, although I didn't expect it to solve the problem.
Many thanks if someone can assist please.